Ozayr Saloojee
@ozayrsaloojee.bsky.social
Architecture faculty (contested terrains; spatial politics and design Justice) at Carleton U (Ottawa) + African Studies + Center for the Study of Islam. Sometimes I draw & write. I like cats and ferries.
@divyampersaud.com’s text : “Outlaw Geography at the End of the World,” is phenomenal too; a fantastic meditation on ideological and intellectual obfuscations snd an how to take, after Nâzim Hikmet, “to take living seriously.”
April 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
@divyampersaud.com’s text : “Outlaw Geography at the End of the World,” is phenomenal too; a fantastic meditation on ideological and intellectual obfuscations snd an how to take, after Nâzim Hikmet, “to take living seriously.”
Mohamad Nahleh is an incredible writer and thinker - and his piece, titled “Purging a Wretched Empire,” is heart-crushing, unapologetic, tender, brutal and beautiful. It’s a must read.
April 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Mohamad Nahleh is an incredible writer and thinker - and his piece, titled “Purging a Wretched Empire,” is heart-crushing, unapologetic, tender, brutal and beautiful. It’s a must read.
Delighted to welcome these brilliant critics for M.Arch Thesis Reviews at Carleton Architecture next week; welcome Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Dan Ling, Aliki Economides, Stephen Beites, Bz Zhang, Mohamad Nahleh, Karen Kubey, Louis-Charles Lasnier and McLain Clutter!
April 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Delighted to welcome these brilliant critics for M.Arch Thesis Reviews at Carleton Architecture next week; welcome Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Dan Ling, Aliki Economides, Stephen Beites, Bz Zhang, Mohamad Nahleh, Karen Kubey, Louis-Charles Lasnier and McLain Clutter!
She kissed the ground and she liked iiiiiiiiiiiiit 🎶
April 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
She kissed the ground and she liked iiiiiiiiiiiiit 🎶
A short interlude for the upstairs and downstairs apartments.
April 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
A short interlude for the upstairs and downstairs apartments.
Grateful to Scroope Journal (from the School of Architecture at Cambridge) + editors Nick Frayne & Jerry Chow for the invitation to contribute to volume 33: Disenclosure; and to world a little around writing as a spatial practice. Honored to be in this company and to have a print copy in hand. ♥️
April 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Grateful to Scroope Journal (from the School of Architecture at Cambridge) + editors Nick Frayne & Jerry Chow for the invitation to contribute to volume 33: Disenclosure; and to world a little around writing as a spatial practice. Honored to be in this company and to have a print copy in hand. ♥️
Hard, but necessary. It’s been a privilege to work with this board; among the most principled, generous, kind, brilliant, just, + fiercely tender people I’ve met. Looking forward to building platforms, institutions, languages, potentials + possibilities that have these values and voices. Stay tuned.
March 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Hard, but necessary. It’s been a privilege to work with this board; among the most principled, generous, kind, brilliant, just, + fiercely tender people I’ve met. Looking forward to building platforms, institutions, languages, potentials + possibilities that have these values and voices. Stay tuned.
Greetings from The Hague.
February 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Greetings from The Hague.
Kumo at stage right.
February 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Kumo at stage right.
Some of the stunning work of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940-2025). Image 1: Adios Map, 2021: Image 2:Untitled (Green and Yellow), 1978; Image 3: Montana: Salish Country since the Creation Time, 2011.
February 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Some of the stunning work of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940-2025). Image 1: Adios Map, 2021: Image 2:Untitled (Green and Yellow), 1978; Image 3: Montana: Salish Country since the Creation Time, 2011.
And the St. John’s Pottery - with Richard Bresnahan - and the Johanna Kiln (largest - I think - wood fired kiln in North America that takes 6 weeks to load)… Dangit - missing Minnesota now!
January 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
And the St. John’s Pottery - with Richard Bresnahan - and the Johanna Kiln (largest - I think - wood fired kiln in North America that takes 6 weeks to load)… Dangit - missing Minnesota now!
A gorgeous complex. The Alcuin library on campus is stunning too.
January 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A gorgeous complex. The Alcuin library on campus is stunning too.
Peace for a hot minute in academia as a blown transformer quiets half the campus for a bit.
January 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Peace for a hot minute in academia as a blown transformer quiets half the campus for a bit.
A great read by Boyce Upholt, on the Mississippi (a great river that I think about often and miss an awful lot more). This introduction to Chapter 9 reminded me of the amazing Dr. Zoe Todd (who we also miss a - metric - ton, and then some in this neck of the woods.
January 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
A great read by Boyce Upholt, on the Mississippi (a great river that I think about often and miss an awful lot more). This introduction to Chapter 9 reminded me of the amazing Dr. Zoe Todd (who we also miss a - metric - ton, and then some in this neck of the woods.
Random spin of the camera roll. This is Kumo.
January 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Random spin of the camera roll. This is Kumo.
3/4: Some snippets here from my weird writing, which is bookended in the issue by two images: an opening one by Dylan Shaw, of “climbing out,” and a closing image by Emad El Byed, which was both a dedication of and for the writing, but also, of return.
January 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
3/4: Some snippets here from my weird writing, which is bookended in the issue by two images: an opening one by Dylan Shaw, of “climbing out,” and a closing image by Emad El Byed, which was both a dedication of and for the writing, but also, of return.
2/4: It’s a privilege to be in this company of contributors that include Sami Henni, Anooradha Iuer Siddiqi, Chris Cornelius, Caroline Imani Collin’s, K. Wayne Yang, Yasmeen Lari and so many other incredible folks. The issue is open access thru the U. Of Cambridge’s Dept. of Architecture.
January 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
2/4: It’s a privilege to be in this company of contributors that include Sami Henni, Anooradha Iuer Siddiqi, Chris Cornelius, Caroline Imani Collin’s, K. Wayne Yang, Yasmeen Lari and so many other incredible folks. The issue is open access thru the U. Of Cambridge’s Dept. of Architecture.
1/4: Huge thnx to Jerry Chow + Nicholas Frayne - the very patient and thoughtful co-editors of Scroope 33: Disenclosure - for their generous invite to contribute to the journal, and for being so open to a weird, ergodic writing meditation on worlding and and trying to (un)make sense of it all.
January 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
1/4: Huge thnx to Jerry Chow + Nicholas Frayne - the very patient and thoughtful co-editors of Scroope 33: Disenclosure - for their generous invite to contribute to the journal, and for being so open to a weird, ergodic writing meditation on worlding and and trying to (un)make sense of it all.
A backstreet in Istanbul, near Tophane in Istanbul, winding its way up to Istiklal Caddesi. February 2024; from a random spin of the camera roll.
December 27, 2024 at 12:40 AM
A backstreet in Istanbul, near Tophane in Istanbul, winding its way up to Istiklal Caddesi. February 2024; from a random spin of the camera roll.
I loved it here. Hamra magic, light and water in Beirut. (June 2024).
December 19, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I loved it here. Hamra magic, light and water in Beirut. (June 2024).
The world is still horrible and it’s Mamluk Monday. Here’s a weird little drawing (all plan and elevation) of the funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay - one of the loveliest things I saw in Cairo, 25 years ago now. That dome *swoon* and that minaret *chef’s kiss*. #mamlukmonday
December 16, 2024 at 12:49 PM
The world is still horrible and it’s Mamluk Monday. Here’s a weird little drawing (all plan and elevation) of the funerary complex of Sultan Qaytbay - one of the loveliest things I saw in Cairo, 25 years ago now. That dome *swoon* and that minaret *chef’s kiss*. #mamlukmonday
Rachid Koraïchi (b. 1947, Aïn Beïda in Algeria). The boat is "Dans L'eclat de la Mer, 2005), and the star is "Deux Rives, Une Mer (2008).
December 14, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Rachid Koraïchi (b. 1947, Aïn Beïda in Algeria). The boat is "Dans L'eclat de la Mer, 2005), and the star is "Deux Rives, Une Mer (2008).